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Putnam's Story Library.

The Best Stories of The Best Authors.

NOW FIRST COLLECTED.

Price 75 cts. per Vol. Cloth, uniform binding, Library style. 50 cts. Paper.

The design of these Publications is to present to the public, in a form suitable for amusing and attractive reading, and for permanent library use, the best selections from the standard story literature of the English language. A good story is always acceptable to all classes of readers, and this collection, we think, will be welcomed, as supplying a deficiency which now exists in most libraries.

It has been the aim of the editor to render each volume of the series suitable and attractive to the traveller, pleasant to the home circle, worthy of the library—books which either at the seaside or fire-side, by the river or the rail, may best serve to while away a weary half-hour, when closeness of attention is impossible, and the very idea of a lengthened narrative is oppressive.

Each volume of the series is complete in itself.

No. I.

THE MODERN STORY-TELLER.

Contents.

  • The Unlucky Present,
  • The Sultan's Bear,
  • The Ghost Raiser,
  • The Pierced Skull,
  • Cornet Winthrop's Story,
  • Opposite Neighbors,
  • A Midnight Adventure,
  • The Two Isabels,
  • Popping the Question,
  • Captain Withers' Engagement,
  • The Two Sisters,
  • The Judge who always Anticipated.
  • The Satisfaction of a Gentleman,
  • The Counter Stroke,
  • The Betrothal,
  • Love Passages in the Life of Perron the Breton,
  • Match-making,
  • The Tapis Vert of Versailles,
  • The White-Lace Bonnet,
  • The First and Last Dinner,
  • The Cock Fight,
  • Our Major's Story.

No. II.

THE BAKED HEAD, AND OTHER TALES.

Contents.

  • The Baked Head,
  • Wolf in Sheep's Clothing,
  • Elkanah Smithers, Jr.,
  • Infatuation,
  • An Ordeal,
  • A Royal Whim,
  • A Story of Sweden,
  • Major O'Shaughnessy's Adventure,
  • A Cock-Fight in the Havana,
  • Angelica Staggers,
  • The Fall of the Janissaries,
  • Leaves from the Diary of a Law Clerk,
  • The Golden Guillotine,
  • Edward Drysdale,
  • The Unfinished Picture.

No. III.

SEA STORIES.

(In Preparation.)

Opinions of the Press.

A good story—a story which is nothing but a story, without a religious, political, or social purpose—is a good thing; one of the best things in literature, and hard to be found now-a-days, except in this collection.—N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.

No pleasanter book can be found for the seaside or the fireside; on the steamer or in the car.—Springfield Republican.

The taste for story reading is universal; the first book in which childhood becomes interested is a book of tales, and the love of works of fiction remains through life. When tales are written in a pure and chaste style; when they interest us in behalf of virtue and render vice more odious; when they excite our best sympathies and inculcate good morals, they become good teachers. Too often the field of fiction is invaded by the chiffoniers of literature, and the most improbable and extravagant events are detailed in a bloated and exaggerated style, garnished with immorality, calculated to deprave the taste and corrupt the heart. Of such a nature are the stories of the flash newspapers and twenty-five cent yellow-covered pamphlets foisted into circulation by extravagant puffing. In the volume before us we have a series of charming tales, as instructive as they are interesting. The work is neatly got up, and should become a part of every genteel library in the land.—Brooklyn Eagle.

The stories in these volumes are beautiful in every respect—unexceptionable in tone, of great variety, and suited to both sexes and all ages. For half-hour reading we know of nothing to take their place.—City Item, Philadelphia.

G. P. Putnam & Co. have commenced a publication the success of which is certain. They propose to collect in a series of volumes the best tales and stories of the last fifty years, many of them quite unknown to the present generation of readers, and all worthy of re-perusal, either from their intrinsic charms as narrative compositions, or for novelty of incident and beauty of style.—Boston Transcript.

Whoever compiled this book did a kindly thing for the lovers of good stories. Many of the stories are old acquaintances, but they are favorites whom we are glad to meet again and again. There is not a poor or even a "middling" story in the whole collection, which numbers twenty-two, and is of all varieties—sentimental, pathetic, tragic, and humorous.—Boston Telegraph.

Many a lover of good reading has moments when nothing larger in extent than one of these tales can fix his attention, and yet he will be vexed if he finds himself entangled in one of the trashy stories of the day. By having recourse to the "Story Library," he will be sure of something good.—Worcester Palladium.

Putnam's Library of Choice Stories.

THE BAKED HEAD, And Other Tales.

Now first Collected, And forming the Second Volume of "Putnam's Story Library."

NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM & Co., 321 BROADWAY.

1856.
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